Exactly. For ONE turn, the nation can collect its revenues, spend that
actual hard cash on resources, and then fail to pay its bills for THAT turn only.
Unlike in the real world, say, where nations can -- and HAVE -- run for
years on billions of dollars (or pounds, or whatever your favored currency may
be) of debt, spending money they don't have while borrowing more. In ME-PBM
you are forced to face the music every turn when maintenance time comes around
-- deficit spending beyond what you can pay for will let you live for at most
two weeks before the creditors come and lock you down. The more resources a
nation currently has, the less likely you are to want to take this sort of
drastic measure, and the more you effectively lose when you do -- one turn's
extra buying power due to failing to pay maintenance is almost never worth
losing the future effectiveness of that nation if the nation IS at all viable --
even a marginally viable character-only nation has a lot of value with its
extra character orders only. A deliberate bankruptcy will only really be a
reasonable choice when the nation is effectively unable to contribute anymore
anyway, at which point its last gasp will not be game-breaking.
In a message dated 3/31/2007 2:37:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,
bbme@rogers.com writes:
--- "Laurence G. Tilley" <_lgtilley@morespeed.lgt_
(mailto:lgtilley@morespeed.net) >
wrote:
If we allow the
player playing Poland
to buy up the world reserves of oil and rubber on
the turn he goes
bankrupt, with money he does not have nor can ever
hope to have, we
might say that we have a major flaw.
Well, what kind of gold do nations facing elimination
actually have? Presuming they've been beaten on to
some extent, are facing a few pops being captured
likely including the capital, etc. His buying
potential is likely less than the face of his pdf.
World supply of rubber??? We're talking a couple
thousand of this or that max, I would presume.
Really, if some kooks want to dump Harad on turn 1
this way, well, let them and watch how it plays out...
We're not talking major economic system altering
buy-outs, etc. Mountain vs mole hill, IMO.
Brad
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